manually trigger touch event

Question

I searched for the past 30 minutes, but didn\'t find a solution.

I want to trigger a touchstart event on an element.

This fires the touchs

Answer 1

I know this has been answered, but I too struggled to find an answer to this problem and the accepted answer didn't work for me. In the end, the solution I found is really very simple and has support across browsers:

var e = new Event('touchstart');
target.dispatchEvent(e);

That's it. Couldn't be easier.